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First Village Museum of Modern Art MoMA

2018 will go down in history as the year in which the first official department of New York's MoMA opened in the village of Staro Zhelezare in Bulgaria, on August 04, 2018. Phenomenon on a global scale as all the greatest works of art from the MoMA collection are now available for permanent viewing to the village audience, in the open gallery in the rural space. Responsible for the ambitious project is the artistic duo Piriankov Art - Katarzyna and Ventsislav Piriankov and 8 of their best students from the University of arts in Poznan, Poland. For just 2 weeks, they made about 60 pieces - recreating famous paintings adding a pinch of their own imagination to them. Like a crocodile going out of the calm waters of Claude Monet's Lillies, or the pigs flying around rural paintings of Chagall. Now, in the village of Staro Zhelezare, the well known pieces of art will gain a new life, extracted from closed spaces and the museum's archive. For the first time in history, the Museum's collection will not only be made available to the poorest, but also least mobile due to biological or economic conditions as well. Some of the famous paintings recreated on villager's walls in Staro Zhelezare are: I and the village by Marc Chagall, The seed of the Areol by Paul Gaugin, Study of baboon by Fransis Bacon, Totem by Keith Haring, Salome by Alphons Mucha, Pierrot and Seated bather by Pablo Picasso, The persistens of memory by Salvador Dali, White square on white background by Malevich and so many more, Staro Zhelezare, Bulgaria on August 03, 2018 (Photo by Hristo Rusev/NurPhoto)

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